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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
Message-ID: <1640088@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 90 23:03:39 GMT
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>Microsoft is working on a major upgrade to DOS and I'd like to solicit
>input from the "power user" communitiy.  
>	gordon letwin
>	microsoft

Writing as a user, what I most want is make the resident portion of
MSDOS SMALLER! I installed 4.01 and lost 32K of RAM! This was a duplicate
of my existing 3.3 configuration with none of the 
selectable extra features of 4.01. Half the programs
I frequently used no longer ran off PCSHELL from PCTOOLS Deluxe.
I went back to 3.3 as I decided I could live with a partitioned disk
better than I could live with bouncing in and out of PCSHELL to
run FREQUENTLY used programs. RAM cram is bad enough without DOS
making it worst. If DOS gets any bigger I will not be able to run
many of my applications.

There are two enhancements I want. The first is a command line editor.
The second is a more sophisticated batch language. First priority
is a counter (e.g. DO %COUNT% TIMES). Second priority is more
flexible ERRORLEVEL checking (e.g. IF ERRORLEVEL <= 10).

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
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